particle physics
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Extremely Sensitive Dark Matter Experiment Detects Something Weird
A mysterious signal has appeared in an extremely sensitive dark matter-hunting experiment. And after more than a year of trying to convince themselves that they were looking at noise, scientists think they might have found something new.
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New Analysis Of Large Hadron Collider Results Confirms Something Weird Is Happening
A theory-defying anomaly has persisted in the latest results from a Large Hadron Collider experiment, according to new results.
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Release The Muons! Physics Breakthrough Will Lead To A New Kind Of Particle Collider
The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometre-round ring, costing over $US10 ($15) billion, with no promise of finding something as glamorous as last decade’s Higgs boson. But does the future of physics need to be so large? What if researchers could probe the secrets of the smallest particles using technology that was,…
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Has Hubble Detected Rogue Clumps Of Dark Matter?
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence of small clumps of dark matter warping the light from distant quasars.